UNICEF and the Global Goals

UNICEF is committed to doing all it can to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in partnership with governments, civil society, business, academia and the United Nations family – and especially children and young people.

Montblanc donates $2 million to support UNICEF Education programmes
LOS ANGELES, USA, 15 March 2010 – The night before the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, Montblanc hosted a cocktail event in Los Angeles celebrating the high quality writing instrument maker’s ‘Signature for Good’ initiative in support of UNICEF. At the event, Montblanc International CEO Lutz Bethge presented a $2 million cheque to Caryl M. Stern, president & CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, who accepted the donation on behalf of UNICEF’s global partnership with Montblanc.

Young Belgian photographer wins UNICEF Germany Photo of the Year honours
BERLIN, Germany, 18 December 2008 – Belgian photographer Alice Smeets is the winner of the UNICEF Germany Photo of the Year. Her picture shows a girl in Cité Soleil, the largest slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, wearing a clean white dress and ribbons in her hair, despite being surrounded by squalor.

In Georgia, help for disabled children affected by conflict
GENEVA, Switzerland, 17 October 2008 – For a moment during the recent war in and around South Ossetia, Georgia, the front line nearly passed through the Senaki Institute, a residential school for 105 mentally and physically disabled children abandoned by their parents. In the opening days of the conflict, a bomb flattened an adjacent building.

J8 Summit opens in Germany
WISMAR, Germany, 3 June 2007 – Young people from Group of 8 industrialized countries and the developing world, as well as German federal and state government officials, have gathered here for the official opening of the Junior 8 Summit – the international youth conference with an agenda that parallels the G8 Summit.

Young people gather to debate global issues at Junior 8 Summit in Germany
NEW YORK, USA, 1 June 2007 – Young people from Group of 8 industrialized nations and the developing world are gathering in Germany to participate in this year’s Junior 8 Summit. Mirroring the G8 Summit, which will be commenced on 6 June, the J8 is aimed at empowering young people to take part and voice their opinions in global affairs.

UNICEF and Volvic Germany provide safe water in rural Ethiopia
SOUTH GONDAR, Ethiopia, 14 July 2006 – Yezab Menge and her neighbour help each other strap large earthenware pots filled with over 15 litres of clean water onto their backs. The water is drawn with a hand pump from a well constructed in their district using funds donated by bottled-water supplier Volvic Germany through the German Committee for UNICEF.

UNICEF supports ‘No to Racism Days’ campaign at the 2006 FIFA World Cup
BERLIN, Germany, 28 June 2006 – As football fans around the world took two days off from the excitement and the spirit of competition at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany, UNICEF and FIFA – along with prominent members of the German Government and world sporting associations – met at the Olympic Stadium in the German capital to decry racial divisiveness.

UNICEF National Action Day raises HIV/AIDS awareness in Germany
BERLIN, Germany, 5 June 2006 – Dressed in red UNICEF shirts and carrying crosses with the slogan, ‘Stop AIDS! Every minute a child is dying of AIDS’, about 100 students gathered in front of the Chancellery building here to raise HIV/AIDS awareness on UNICEF National Action Day. The event took place on 12 May in anticipation of the United Nations 2006 High Level Meeting on AIDS, which wrapped up on Friday in New York.